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Waywardness; contrariness. Obsolete. rare.
= contumacy, n.; also, a pronouncing a person to be in contumacy.
The quality of being wayward (in various senses).
Perverse and obstinate resistance of or disobedience to authority; rebellious stubbornness.
Refractoriness, rebelliousness, contumacy, obstinacy. Obsolete.
Stubbornness, intractability, rebelliousness. Obsolete.